Saturday, June 8, 2013

How to bypass NSA's data mining

Saying so long to telephone, other snooping by the feds

Tired of the National Security Agency collecting your personal details? There’s an app for that.

In light of reports that the U.S. government has gained direct access
to the systems operating Google, Facebook and Apple, the fact the
National Security Agency is mining billions of Verizon telephone records
for details, and God only knows what those pesky new drones are doing,
advice on how to beat Big Brother is starting to appear.

The product called Seecrypt is purportedly able to block the
connections that otherwise would allow the NSA to look at your phone
records and find out the details of your calls.

“For the app to work, both people wanting to text or call each other
must have the application,” the report said. “But when the application
is used, the phone company will not know the identity or phone number of
the other person on the line. It will only know that the caller used
Seecrypt.”

“Creating a scalable encrypted voice-over-data application that can
operate with minimal latency anywhere in the world is not easy,” said
Normay Walters, co-founder of the company. “Seecrypt met and surpassed
this challenge by using a set of proprietary protocols and a carrier
grade back-end infrastructure that operates on a privately controlled
and globally deployed network.”

The news about the U.S. government’s intrusion into the privacy of
citizens just keeps surging. Most recently, there are reports that the
NSA and FBI simply are tapping into the central services of nine leading
Internet companies to gain access to audio, video, texts, emails and
documents.

The Washington Post
reported the government was working directly from servers for Google,
Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.

So distressing are the revelations about the massive attack on
privacy that left-leaning pundits are abandoning Barack Obama and
analysts are saying his second-term agenda is dead in the water because
of the developments.

“There are ways to keep your correspondence off the grid,” they advise.

For example, for telephone communications, get a throw-away phone, they said.

“Clearly you can’t use your own phone, given that the government
already is compiling metadata on who you call and how often. To limit
the chance of being spied upon while making calls on the go you need to
invest in a ‘burner’ phone (so named because such phones are used for a
brief period of time, then tossed away like stale pizza).”

The report by Robert Baldwin said even better, buy a disposable phone with cash.

“Of course, the person you’re calling also needs a burner phone.
What’s the point of using an anonymous phone if the person you’re
calling is still using their potentially tapped personal phone?”
For email, the report recommends Tor.

This is not the burly guy with the big hammer in the movies; it’s a
“free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form
of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy.”

Wired reported, “Tor was developed by the U.S. Navy to help protect
government communications. The service creates a network of virtual
tunnels that ISPs and other more nefarious organizations can’t track.
Just download the Tor browser and start emailing.”

Another word of caution, “Don’t open any documents, enable any Flash
or Quicktime files, or enable or install any browser plugins while using
Tor.”

For instant messaging?

“Google, AIM, Yahoo and Skype may do a good job securing your chats,
but when the NSA comes to the door with a warrant, all your
communications are available for scrutiny. Instead of letting Big
Brother read all your LOLs, OMGs, and WTFs, you need to start using OTR
(off the record) messaging. Such messages are encrypted so they can’t
actually be read if they’re intercepted or pulled with a subpoena.”

Sheeple

The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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